Like every milestone in her life, it’s hard to believe, but Maya turned 6 months old last week! So we made another trek to the doctor for her next round of shots (ouch!) and to get her latest stats. So here they are:
Height: 26.5 inches (up from 26 inches two months ago)
Weight: 16 pounds 14 ounces (up from 15 pounds 8 ounces)
Head: 42.5 cm (up from 16 1/4 inches… don’t know why they changed measurement systems on this one, but I’ll leave the math up to you to see how much her head grew.)
She was in the 75th percentile for height and weight, so her pace is slowing a bit, which we expected. After all, her mom and dad aren’t in the 95th percentile of anything, especially height!
It’s been an amazing six months, and we couldn’t imagine our lives without Miss Maya. It’s great fun to watch her grow before our eyes, and her smile melts our hearts each and every time.
With this doctor appointment came her transition to solid foods. She had already started rice cereal, but now we’re diving in to tastier things. So far she’s had oatmeal and squash. Next on the list is peas. She never got much into the rice cereal, but she seems to love the oatmeal and squash most of the time. Sometimes her patience is short for eating though, and I think she’d rather just have some good ol’ milk. But she never makes it through a meal without cracking Jason and I up. Squash ends up in the most unlikely places!
She’s also babbling like crazy… she has a million things to tell us about. And she hasn’t mastered the difference between indoor and outdoor voices! She’s rolling over both ways, but still hasn’t used these skills to head all the way across a room. I guess she’s just happy hanging on her blankets for now.